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SEBENICO destroyers (1939/1941)

Beograd 1941

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Sebenico (ex-Beograd) SB   A C de la Loire, Nantes, France 1936 23.12.1937 1.1939 // 4.1941 captured by Germany 9.1943 (TA43)
Lubiana (ex-Ljubljana) LA   Jadranske B G, Split, Yugoslavia 1937 28.6.1938 12.1939 // 4.1941 sunk 1.4.1943

 

Displacement standard, t

1210

Displacement full, t

1655

Length, m

95.4 pp 98.0 oa

Breadth, m

9.45

Draught, m

3.18 mean

No of shafts

2

Machinery

Sebenico: 2 sets Curtis geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers

Lubiana: 2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

40000

Max speed, kts

38

Fuel, t

oil 240

Endurance, nm(kts) 2400(16)

Armament

Sebenico: 4 x 1 - 120/46 Škoda, 2 x 2 - 40/56 Bofors M36, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 30 mines

Lubiana: 4 x 1 - 120/46 Škoda, 1 x 1 - 37/54 Breda 1939, 5 x 1 - 20/65 Breda 1940, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 30 mines

Complement

183

Project history: Former Yugoslavian destroyers, surrendered 17.4.1941 and till August-October, 1942 passed modernization.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Lubiana 1.4.1943 was sunk at Tunis by British aircraft. Sebenico in September, 1943 was captured by German troops at Venice, renamed TA43 and scuttled 1.5.1945 by crew at Trieste.

Sebenico

 

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